Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262335AbVAJRRC (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:17:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262344AbVAJRRB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:17:01 -0500 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:34183 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262335AbVAJRQ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:16:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:16:05 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Hugh Dickins cc: Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: Prezeroing V3 [1/4]: Allow request for zeroed memory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 15 On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Christoph, a late comment: doesn't this effectively replace > do_anonymous_page's clear_user_highpage by clear_highpage, which would > be a bad idea (inefficient? or corrupting?) on those few architectures > which actually do something with that user addr? Yes. Right my ia64 centric vision got me again. Thanks for all the other patches that were posted. I hope this is now all cleared up? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/